Rufus 2.0 Build 639

Rufus

Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.

It can be especially useful for cases where:

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
you want to run a low-level utility

What's new in this version:

Major UI improvements (improved font, new info field, no separate progress dialog, etc.)
Add support for Windows To Go (when Rufus is running on Windows 8 or later)
Add support for Grub4DOS and GRUB 2 based images (e.g. FreeNAS)
Add portable application support, through a 'rufus.ini' file
Add native decompression support for DD images (.Z, .gz, .lzma, .bz2 and .xz)
Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB)
Add support for Windows multipart 'install.swm'
Add support for non Microsoft VHD drivers
Add Norwegian translation, courtesy of JED
Fix a crash on image selection when no device is present
Fix broken VHD support on non-English version of Windows
Fix write error for DD images that are not a multiple of the sector size
Fix broken Unicode support
Update embedded Syslinux to 6.03
Other improvements and fixes
Update Windows version listing for Windows 10